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May 10 2021
Elegant new bike and pedestrian bridge waits to be craned into place across I-84 for cyclists, pedestrians
When architect John Breshears and engineer Craig Totten heard they were going to design a bridge over the Interstate 84 freeway, the pair of friends rode their bicycles around the site then headed to Totten s conference room for a drawing frenzy. We went through three pads of tracing paper, and we still have that first drawing, Breshears said.
Their first concept became the one they adopted: One large arch that seems to bounce once, like a skipping stone, as it reaches the northern embankment, then another quarter of an arch.